(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Campaign to Keep Guns off Campus). For Immediate Release Contact: Andy Pelosi, 914-629-6726, andy@gunfreekids.org (June 26, 2010, New York) – The University of Colorado (CU) Board of Regents voted yesterday to appeal its campus gun ban to the State Supreme Court. In April of [...]
(Photo by David Molnar / The Republican. As his father, Sean Connery snaps a photograph, left, Devin Connery of Lunenburg, fires a Heckler & Koch Universal Machine-Pistol at the Machine Gun Shoot and Firearms Expo sponsored by the Westfield Sportsman Club and C.O.P. Firearms and Training on Sunday. According to the Associated Press on May [...]
(People pause at a memorial for victims of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting in Blacksburg, Va. Friday marks the third anniversary of the shootings, where 32 people plus the shooter died. Jeanna Duerscherl/The Roanoke Times/AP). On April 16th, the Christian Science Monitor quoted Andy Pelosi, Director of the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus, about [...]
According to the Indiana Daily Student paper on March 1st: A 21-year-old IU student was arrested after he used a loaded handgun to assault a man at Kilroy’s Sports Bar early Saturday morning. Bloomington police Sgt. Jim Batcho said officers arrived at the bar around 2:45 a.m. Saturday and walked down an alley where they [...]
According to the Associated Press on Feb. 17th: HELSINKI — A Finnish government commission on Wednesday proposed a ban on semiautomatic handguns after two school shootings in recent years left 20 people dead. The ban, which needs parliamentary approval, would sharply reduce the number of legal weapons in a country that ranks among the world’s [...]
The New York Times education blog posted a lengthy profile on Feb. 15th, on Andy Pelosi and the Campaign to Keep Guns Off College Campuses. NYT noted the shooting at Alabama University in Huntsville, where a female biology professor, Amy Bishop, killed three fellow professors and wounded three others because, allegedly, she was denied tenure. [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). For Immediate Release Contact: Thom Mannard, (312) 341-0939, tmannard@ichv.org Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence Remembers the Victims, Survivors and Families Affected By Valentine’s Day Shooting Rampage that Killed 5 Students and Wounded 16; Advocates Call for Renewed Effort to [...]
(We are pleased to post the following “Insights Column” from the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). ICHV Insights Column by Garrett Evans Garrett Evans was wounded and survived the massacre at Virginia Tech University in 2007. He later graduated from the university and now lives in Chicago, where he frequently speaks about gun violence to [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus). For Immediate Release Contact: Andy Pelosi, 914-629-6726, andy@gunfreekids.org John Johnson, 319-389-7382, johnwjohnson@mchsi.com Bills Fail In Michigan and 11 Other States in 2009. Colorado State University Bans Guns On Campus In December; Momentum Builds To Protect Universities and Student Safety [...]
(We are pleased to post the following joint press release from the Campaign To Keep Guns Off Campus, Freedom States Alliance, Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence, and Students For Gun-Free Schools). For Immediate Release Monday, October 19, 2009 Contacts: Andy Pelosi, Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus and GunFreeKids.org, 914-629-6726 Peter Hamm, Brady Campaign [...]
According to the Huffington Post on Oct. 12th: DENVER — In the first detailed public remarks by any parent of the two Columbine killers, Dylan Klebold’s mother says she had no idea her son was suicidal until she read his journals after the 1999 high school massacre. Susan Klebold’s essay in next month’s issue of [...]
(See the Wall Street Journal’s July 8th report, An Uphill Fight for the Right to Carry Guns on Campus). PRESS RELEASE Students for Gun-Free Schools Joined By: Freedom States Alliance Gun Free Kids.org Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence Protest Easy Guns.com Coalition To Stop Gun Violence For Immediate Release Wednesday, July 8, 2009 Contacts: [...]
CNN reported on June 24th, a troubling murder at an Iowa high school, where football coach Ed Thomas was gunned down by an adult in the school’s gym. (CNN) — An Iowa high school football coach died Wednesday after he was shot inside the school as athletes were lifting weights, the district superintendent told CNN. [...]
The Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus, Students For Gun-Free Schools, and the North Texas Brady Campaign held a major rally in Austin, Texas on the second anniversary of the Virginia Tech to protest state legislation to permit students to carry guns on campuses at public universities. Watch this ABC News video, and see the [...]
Josh Sugarmann, Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center wrote the following op-ed in the Washington Post on Sunday, Apr. 19th.
(We are pleased to post the following joint press release from The Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus, Students For Gun Free Schools, and the North Texas Brady Campaign). For Immediate Release Contact: Andy Pelosi 914-629-6726, andy@gunfreekids.org Public University Officials “Gagged†From Speaking Out; Parents Threaten Boycott of Texas Public Universities if Legislation Passes (Austin, [...]
Arming students is ineffective at stopping a mass shooting. On Friday, April 10th, ABC News’ 20/20 investigative report demonstrated conclusively, through repeated tests, that armed students could not stop a rampage shooting even after being clued into the experiments. A real-life encounter would be even more surprising, disorienting and virtually impossible for armed students to [...]
According to CNN on Mar. 11th a teen gunman kills 16 in Winnenden, German in a school shooting spree. (Resource: See our Freedom States Alliance in-depth interview with Joseph Lieberman, author of “School Shootings”; see part 2 here). WINNENDEN, Germany (CNN) — A gunman dressed in military gear killed 16 people Wednesday in a shooting [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus, a project from our partners at GunFreeKids.org). For Immediate Release Contact: Andy Pelosi 914-629-6726 andy@gunfreekids.org www.GunFreeKids.org Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus asks college and university presidents to band together to fight gun lobby’s agenda to push guns [...]
We are pleased to post the second part of our interview with Joseph Lieberman, author of “School Shootings: What Every Parent and Educator Needs To Know To Protect Our Children,†(Citadel Press, Sept., 2008). Read Part I here. The interview was conducted by Scott Vogel, Communications Director for the Freedom States Alliance. Order your copy [...]
We are pleased to post the following in-depth interview with Joseph Lieberman, author of “School Shootings: What Every Parent and Educator Needs To Know To Protect Our Children,†(Citadel Press, Sept., 2008). Part I is below. We will post Part II later this week. The interview was conducted by Scott Vogel, Communications Director for the [...]
According to the Chicago Tribune on Jan. 14th, posted at 12:20 PM Central: Two children suffered minor injuries from shattered glass this morning after a man opened fire on their school bus on the Near Southwest Side. The gunman fired at the bus near Cermak Road and Wolcott Avenue about 11:15 a.m., authorities said. Chicago [...]
The Associated Press reported on Oct. 31st in Stockton Springs, Maine, that a horrific tragedy involving young children was, thankfully, averted. Police say a gunman held 11 fifth-graders hostage at an elementary school in Maine but he was taken into custody without any harm to the children. Chief Deputy Robert Keating of the Waldo County [...]
CNN reported the following tragic shooting on Oct. 27th, at yet another college campus. (CNN) — Police are searching for two suspects in the fatal shooting of two University of Central Arkansas students Sunday night, while two other suspects are in custody, authorities said Monday. The first suspect was apprehended in his car shortly after [...]
In the Yale Daily News, Jacob O. Iversen, a graduate student at Yale, wrote a strongly worded response to a recent column by Andrew Clark who called for allowing students to carry concealed handguns on college campuses and in dorms. Mr. Iversen’s remarkably persuasive column, supported with facts and sound arguments, is worth quoting at [...]
BBC News posted the following report today, Sept. 23rd, about a school massacre in Finland: The U.K. Scotsman reported today that the 22-year-old shooter obtained his firearms license only one month ago. It is believed chilling videos posted online of a man firing a gun are linked to today’s shooting in Finland. The short clips, [...]
Fear, coupled with a radical and irrational ideology, can help explain why a small Texas school district could allow teachers and staff to carry a loaded and hidden handgun into their classrooms. The new and dangerous policy was rationalized as a “prevention” measure to deter a Virginia Tech type massacre or school shooting. Spare us [...]
Guns on campus for protection? Well, this story today in Phoenix demonstrates that armed individuals on college campuses are, in fact, the worst possible idea for protecting students or improving public safety. A simmering fight between two men resulted in two innocent people being wounded by stray gunfire. The fact that innocent people get hurt [...]
We were moving our office recently and came across a March 27, 1998, Wall Street Journal op-ed by the controversial pro-gun “researcher†John Lott. Lott became famous for marketing his dubious claims that “more guns equal less crime” and spearheaded CCW laws across the country. The methodology of some of Lott’s “scholarship†has been challenged [...]
On the heals of death threats at two Chicago colleges, yet another disturbing gun massacre threat closed over a dozen schools in Illinois on Thursday and will likely stay closed until next Tuesday, April 22nd. Administrators and security officials are taking the threat extremely seriously, especially around the one-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre. [...]
On April 14th, 2008, the Illinois Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence (ICPGV) held a public forum at the Northern Illinois University satellite campus in Naperville. For those who do not live in Illinois, the main NIU campus in DeKalb was the site of a tragic college shooting. On February 14th, 2008, a former student, Steven [...]
An in-depth article from the Denver Post on March 28th offered insights into the mind of Matthew Murray who attacked two Colorado churches, killing 5 people, including himself after being wounded by a guard, and injuring 6 others. Jacinda Treadway was the last person to talk to Matthew Murray before he opened fire on parishioners [...]
On Friday, March 7th on Chicago’s West Side, a 15-year-old student, DeVonte Smyth, was charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a Crane Tech High School classmate, Ruben Ivy, 18, shortly after school let out. Ruben Ivy is the 18th Chicago public school student killed since school began in September. In response, the [...]
According to a local TV station in western Wisconsin: An Internet gun dealer based in Green Bay that sold a weapon to the Virginia Tech shooter last year sold handgun accessories to the man who killed five at Northern Illinois University Thursday. Eric Thompson says that his Web site, www.thegunsource.com, sold two empty 9 millimeter [...]
(We are posting a press release from States United to Prevent Gun Violence). PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release February 15, 2008 Contacts: Barbara Hohlt (646) 594-8956 / Bryan Miller (856) 371-3038 The World Looks On In Shock and Disgust As America Endures Another Massacre – While Politicians Sit On Their Hands New York: America suffers [...]
(We are pleased to post the following joint press release from the national leading gun violence prevention organizations: the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, and the Violence Policy Center). Washington, DC–Following yesterday’s mass shooting at Northern Illinois University which left six dead, including the shooter, and 16 wounded, [...]
It’s been on the NRA “bucket list†to mandate that colleges and universities should be forced to permit students, professors and employees to carry hidden and loaded handguns on campus. Despite the protest of institutions of higher education, the NRA has succeeded for example in Utah, and continues to push for allowing concealed handguns in [...]
Eugene, Oregon’s daily newspaper, The Registered Guard, wrote one of the most remarkable and persuasive editorials on Dec. 17th about the epidemic levels of gun violence in our country, and most importantly our callous response to it. The editorial, “The American Way” is a must-read: After Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold gunned down 36 people [...]
We strongly encourage you to watch this local news video: “Special Investigation: Reading, Writing & Weapons.” A WBTV News brief noted: More weapons are showing up on the campus of Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools. During Monday’s 11 p.m. news, Anchor Molly Grantham presented the second installment in her month-long series entitled “Reading, Writing & Weapons.” During [...]
A newswire story from Reuters stated: Panic swept a school in southern Finland on Friday after an online threat that it would be the next target for a shooting rampage, the school’s principal said. Two days earlier, 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen shot dead six fellow students and two staff members at a school in nearby Tuusula, [...]
The Hartford Courant writes: More than 50 times since 1974, young people have brought guns into U.S. schools and used them to kill multiple victims. In most cases, according to an expert who studied 37 of those incidents, the shooters weren’t sociopaths getting their violent kicks. Most were young people struggling with intense emotional pain [...]
IL: Girl, 6, accidentally shot in chest in Oak Forest home An Oak Forest girl is recovering this morning after a friend of her mother accidentally shot the 6-year-old in the chest while “showing off” a gun Tuesday night, police said. A 21-year-old man was visiting the girl’s mother in their home in the 15700 [...]
Perhaps one of the most disturbing news stories we’ve read in some time, from AP: NORRISTOWN, Pa. – The mother of a 14-year-old who authorities say had a cache of guns, knives and explosive devices in his bedroom for a possible school attack was charged Friday with buying her son three weapons. Michele Cossey bought [...]
Freedom States Alliance affiliate, Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, forcefully responded to the recent school shooting in Cleveland by a 14-year-old boy who shot five others and then killed himself. OCAGV’s Executive Director, Toby Hoover, was interviewed in the Beacon Journal: The shootings by a 14-year-old at a Cleveland alternative high school Wednesday afternoon raised [...]
Breaking news on CNN: A teenage gunman was killed Wednesday after going on a shooting spree at a high school in Cleveland, Ohio, according to police and media reports. The 14-year-old student was killed after the shooting rampage in which two teachers were shot, CNN affiliate WOIO reported. It wasn’t known whether police shot the [...]
An AP story from southern Oregon, in Medford, noted a disturbing push by a female teacher who wants to carry a deadly concealed handgun in her school to protect herself from her ex-husband who she claims is threatening her. High school English teacher Shirley Katz insists she needs to take her pistol with her to [...]
Jonathan Zimmerman writes a sincere column in the Los Angeles Times today on the one year anniversary of the Nickel Mines tragedy: School shootings are etched onto our collective psyche, each name signifying another moment of unspeakable horror. Littleton, Colo. Jonesboro, Ark. Springfield, Ore. And most recently, of course, Virginia Tech. But Nickel Mines was [...]
You remember crazy State Rep. Frank Lasee don’t you? You know, the Wisconsin lawmaker who said in October of 2006 that we should arm teachers and put deadly concealed handguns in our nation’s daycares and schools in the aftermath of school shootings in Colorado, Wisconsin, and of course the tragic and infamous Amish school massacre [...]
Tragedies abound – far too many – when it comes to young Americans killed by gunfire. There is a great controversy raging about how to keep more of our GIs from dying in Iraq, but we too often give up on keeping our young people from getting shot here on the home front. So, in [...]
October 2nd is a sad and tragic anniversary when one year ago an unstable milk truck driver murdered five young Amish girls execution style inside their quiet one-room schoolhouse, and wounded another five girls before killing himself. The Nickel Mines gun massacre ranks as one of the most grisly episodes of American gun violence where [...]
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